Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their old infiltration route, the Ho Chi Minh trail, which empties into the isolated Central Highlands. Instead, more and more have been striking directly southward into the populous coastal plain (see map). The aim of the Marines' "Operation Prairie" is to cut those arteries from the DMZ and push the Reds so far west that they will once again be forced to use the trail...
...players, and such internationally ranked soloists as Violist William Primrose and Cellist Janos Starker. Boasting five campus orchestras and the resident Berkshire String Quartet, Indiana last year sponsored 501 musical events. Snaring topflight musicians is easy, says Indiana's Dean Wilfred Bain (with some exaggeration), because "people who push brooms are treated better than symphony players." Beyond that, the lures of the campus include more security, fatter pensions, sabbatical leaves, tenure, and salaries that match and often surpass those offered by the orchestras. For many, the chief attraction of a university post is simply a chance to catch...
When Mrs. Marvin Glidden, 36, gave birth to a son in Los Angeles' U.C.L.A. Medical Center earlier this month, the delivery was perfectly normal in all but one detail: on its way to the birth canal, the baby's head had to push aside a transplanted kidney located on the right side of the mother's pelvic area. Neither mother nor baby was bothered a bit, but that minor deviation from standard procedure marked a major problem that had worried doctors all through Bonnie Glidden's pregnancy...
...could get his most troublesome opposition from foes of Mahoney. Pressman -- a liberal and Baltimore's fiscal watchdog -- could take several thousand Agnew votes in the city. And if a Sickles write-in campaign gets underway (there is a lot of talk about it), Sickles could easily push enough votes away from Agnew put Mahoney in the governor's chance...
...militants feel that the middle class Negro-white liberal coalition can make no claims to representing the Watts community: "We want somebody from the masses to speak for the masses, not some Tom who drops down to Watts once a week to see how things are going." Yet the push for a leader who really represents the people has not served to unify the community: the entire Negro population of Los Angeles does not center around the radicals' "half-acre" and for every angry young man on 103rd calling King a bourgeois, there is a man of another, more resigned...